Birds vs Bees: Flowers Evolved To Lure Specific Pollinators

Medicine & Technology Apr 22, 2017

Research found that flowers believed to have evolved to lure hummingbirds really showed combinations of traits to keep away bumblebees, whose visits were 'wasteful' for the plants.

Oxygen Is Not Always A Lifeline [VIDEO]

Apr 21, 2017

Scientists find that life can exist even if there is no oxygen

'Teleocrater' The Dinosaurs Ancesstor Was A Freaky Crocodile Like Creature

Apr 13, 2017

The discovery of 245-million-year-old fossils suggests that crocodile-like creatures lived on the earth much before the Dinosaurs.

Giving Birth To New Species: Ecosystem Diversify Faster As Hengduan Mountains Form

Apr 04, 2017

Scientists provided clues that new species evolve faster as the mountains continue to form. Old species will branch out to form new species that can adapt to new environmental features.

Fruit Diet Helped The Primate's Brain To Evolve

Mar 28, 2017

A new study concludes Fruit rich diet drove primates to evolve big brains. The fruit-eating animals turned out to have 25 percent more brain tissue than others.

Scientists Found Acoustics Of Extinct Jurassic Species In Rare Cricket Family

Mar 18, 2017

An international team of sensory and evolutionary biologists from UK, Canada, and France conducted a study on a rare family of insects. Researchers studied on the sound-generating organs in Orthopterans to understand how bush-crickets developed their highly specialized acoustic functions.

HD 106906b, This Gigantic Jupiter-Like Planet Can Reveal The Information About Planetary Evolution

Mar 17, 2017

A team of astrophysicists from United States, Netherlands, and Italy found a young planet which is 300 light-years away. The planet is only 13 million years old and 11 times larger than Jupiter.

This 423-Million-Year Old Ancient Fish Of Southern China May Have Evolved Prior To The 'Age Of Fish'

Mar 09, 2017

The 423 million years old Sparalepsis fish fossil revealed the secrets of fish evolution. Researchers from Flinders University, Australia and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China found this fossil from Southern China

100,000-Year-Old Fossil of Human Skulls From China Reveals Complex Trend in Evolution

Mar 03, 2017

Fossil of two human skulls was discovered from the Lingjing site in Eastern China. Zhan-Yang Li and his team found that those skulls are more than 100,000 years old and they have some similarities with both modern and Extinct human species.

DNA Results Help To Find Out The Secrets Of The Ancient Pueblo

Feb 24, 2017

It's a question that eluded answers for more than a century, Who were the 14 people buried in the tiny tomb known as Room 33.

New York Museum Displays World's Largest, Newly Discovered Dinosaur

Jan 18, 2016

Last Friday, scientists uncovered a 122-foot long dinosaur. It is so big that even the American Museum of Natural History in New York, home of the biggest blue whale model, may need some extensions.

Ancient DNA Shows Dogs Split from Wolves Much Earlier than Previous Estimates

May 23, 2015

The long relationship between humans and dogs has just been pushed back by tens of thousands of years, thanks to a small piece of rib bone found during an expedition to the far northern reaches of Siberia. And the genetics show that dogs split from wolves much earlier than we once believed.

Yale Traces the Origins of all Snakes

May 20, 2015

Researchers at Yale University recently delved into the evolutionary history of snakes, and what they discovered was an ancient creature who lived over 120 million years ago in the warm forests of the Southern Hemisphere. And most interesting of all, this creature sported tiny hindlimbs, replete with ankles and toes.

The Trap-Jaws’ Mighty Mandibles Propel Them from Danger

May 15, 2015

The mighty mandibles of the trap-jaw ants are legendary in the animal kingdom. Members of the genus Odontomachus have specialized spring-loaded jaws that can snap shut at speeds of 60 meters per second, with forces that exceed 300 times their body weight. But in four species, those powerful jaws are not only great at catching prey, they can also aid in the ant's escape.

Embryological Manipulation Reveals Chicks Can Have Prehistoric Looks

May 13, 2015

One of the latest breakthroughs from Yale scientists: the mighty dino-chicken. The Yale team used molecular manipulation to grow chicken embryos with Velociraptor snouts and published their results yesterday in the journal Evolution. The embryos did not hatch.